Issue Ninety-Six

April 2018                                           

Letter from the Editor
Gabriel Blackwell 

FICTION

The Omega
Joseph Cardinale 

Status
Pony
Greg Mulcahy 

Grad Student Seeking Dog Sitter
Ardith Bravenec 

The Nose
Kathleen Heil

The Racers
Anne Sanow 

Last Thing
Evan Lavender-Smith  

POETRY

Americans
Antidote
L. A. Johnson

A Lesson on Titles and Place with "Americans" 

Captions
Patty Nash

A Lesson on Voice and Tone with "Captions"

Watching Her Listen Probably to Janis Joplin
Tim Lynch

A Lesson on Animating the Abstract with "Watching Her Listen Probably to Janis Joplin"

Creation Myth
Ellen C. Bush

A Lesson on Creation Myths with "Creation Myth"

Lexicon
Robert Whitehead

A Lesson on the Voice of Authority with "Lexicon"

Memento
Trenton Pollard

A Lesson on Gesture with "Memento"

NONFICTION

Lanes
Kristine Langley Mahler 

BOOK REVIEWS 

White Dialogues by Bennett Sims
reviewed by Joe Sacksteder

The Interrogation by Michael Bazzett
reviewed by Mitchell R. McInnis

Stone Baby by Michelle Sacks
reviewed by Laura Nicoară

Lessons on Expulsion by Erika L. Sánchez
reviewed by Ananda Lima

Mr. Neutron by Joe Ponepinto
reviewed by Alex Poppe

Lock & Load: Armed Fiction edited by Deirdre McAfee and BettyJoyce Nash
reviewed by John David Harding

 

 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES